Improvement in gauntlet-gloves



E. V. WHITAKER.

Gauntlet-Gloves.

No.l52,265. Patentedlune23,l874l W v I lnven cor z i n sses WLA UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDYVIN VJVHITAKER, OF GLOVERSVILIJE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAUNTLET-GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,265, dated June 23, 1874; application filed May 16, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, EDWIN V. WHITAKER, of Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gloves 0r Gauntlets, for gentlem ens, ladies, or childrens use; and I do hereby declare that the following is a clear and exact description of my invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to use and make it, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved glove or gauntlet, and Fig. 2 shows the mode in which I carry my improvement into execution.

My invention consists in the utilization of small pieces of waste or scrap leather, or similar non-elastic material, in the manufacture of gauntlet-gloves, the cuffs or wrist-pieces of which are in one piece with thebody, and pro vided with longitudinal slits, into which are inserted a corresponding number of triangular pieces. By the insertion of these pieces into slits made in the body of the material, (and not merely replacing by them other material which has been cut away) a flaring cuff or wrist-piece is formed continuous with the glove, as shown in Fig. l of the drawing hereto annexed.

As very small pieces of leather or similar material may be used for these gores, I am enabled to manufacture my gauntlet-glove at a greatly-reduced cost by utilizing leather and similar material (the cuttings and scraps) which has hitherto been considered useless in the manufacture of gloves. Besides, by using for these gores leather or similar material differing in color from the material of which the body of the glove is made, a pleasing and very pretty efiect may be produced.

By reference to Fi 1, it will be seen that I make the flaring cuff, which is in one piece with the glove proper, by slitting the material A, as shown at c in Fig. 2, and inserting between the slits triangular gores B of leather or similar non-elastic material. The mode of inserting the triangular gores B in the slits between the rectangular cut'f-pieces A, formed by said slits, is shown in Fi .2, where one of the gores has been already put in place, while Fig. 1 shows the finished glove.

I am fully aware that gloves or gauntlets have been made with one gore in the wristpieee, and that the use of gores, broadly, in this connection, is not new; but I am not aware that a glove or gauntlet has ever been manufactured as hereinbefore describedthat is, with a series of gores triangular in shape inserted between rectangular prolongations of the glove proper over the wrist formed by slitting open the material, so as to form a flaring end or gauntlet, continuous around the wrist, and without elastics or elastic gores, buttonholes, and buttons, or other special fastening devices.

I do not limit myself as to the number of gores B employed, which may be varied according to taste or expediency; but

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, the gauntletglove herein described, the cuif or wristpiece of which is formed in one piece with the body and provided with a series of longitudinal slits, in which are inserted a corresponding number of non-elastic triangular pieces or gores of the same or similar material with the body, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of March A. l). 1874, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- EDiVIN V. WHITAKER.

IVitnesses:

THOMAS JEANS, STEPHEN Gmrrrs. 

